A number of directives now regulate the advertising and award of nearly all public and utility contracts over a certain value.

This essential text offers a practical stage-by-stage guide to the procurement regime, covering the tendering and bidding for contracts. * Provides a clear explanation of the tendering process for supplies, works and services contracts * Contains the full text of each of the Regulations - including the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996 * Analyses the new rules on a topic-by-topic basis.

General rules relating to supplies, works, services and utilities; how the tendering process works; the exceptions relating to each type of contract; the distinctions between public procurement and CCT; forms; flow charts.